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The Alternate Source Magazine - Volume 1, Number 1
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Issue Information:
| Name: | The Alternate Source Magazine |
| Issue: | Vol 1 No 1 / Issue 1 |
| Date: | 1980 |
| Publisher: | The Alternate Source Publications |
| Size: | 3.9M |
| Pages: | 28 |
| TOSEC: | The Alternate Source Issue 01 (1980)(The Alternate Source).zip |
Table of Contents
In This Issue:
| 2 | BOOTSTRAP |
| 3 | HELP FOR THE SINGLE DRIVE OWNER |
| 5 | MAKE DATA A way to merge your Machine Language and BASIC programs! |
| 8 | FROM THE SOURCE'S MOUTH |
| 11 | EMBED MACHINE LANGUAGE IN BASIC by Dennis Bathory Kitsz |
| 12 | CURSOR CONTROL |
| 17 | DOCUMENT |
| 18 | BYTE PACKER by C. W. Simpson |
| 23 | HANGMAN |
| 26 | LAST MINUTE ODDS & ENDS |
| 27 | IN THE BUFFER . . . |
Regular Features:
| 4 | Software Review: PORK BARREL |
| 24 | Software Review: VTOS |
| 7 | Bulletin Board |
| 10 | Letters |
The Alternate Source Magazine - Volume 1, Number 2
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Issue Information:
| Name: | The Alternate Source Magazine |
| Issue: | Vol 1 No 2 / Issue 2 |
| Date: | 1980 |
| Publisher: | The Alternate Source Publications |
| Size: | 10.9M |
| Pages: | 40 |
| TOSEC: | The Alternate Source Issue 02 (19xx)(The Alternate Source) |
Table of Contents
In This Issue:
| 3 | No Frills by Dan Yerke Tape Display Program. |
| 8 | Soundex by Roxton Baker A TRS-80 Sound Utility |
| 7 | ESF Review by Roger Fuller A report on the stringy floppy |
| 19 | B17 Review by Dan Poorman |
| 22 | Diskmap by Larry Sylvia |
| 25 | Patchwork by Chuck |
| 27 | Going For Broke by Allan Moluf Disabling the BREAK Key |
| 29 | Errata |
| 31 | Ramstuff by Allan Moluf TRS-80 RAM Locations |
Regular Features:
| 2 | Editorial RAMbling by Charley Butler |
| 14 | Letters |
| 15 | Bulletin Board |
| 26 | Survey |
| 30 | From The Source's Mouth by Joni M. Kosloski |
| 38 | Odds & Ends |
| 39 | In The Buffer |
The Alternate Source Magazine - Volume 1, Number 3
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Issue Information:
| Name: | The Alternate Source Magazine |
| Issue: | Vol 1 No 3 / Issue 3 |
| Date: | 1980 |
| Publisher: | The Alternate Source Publications |
| Size: | 5.0M |
| Pages: | 44 |
| TOSEC: | The Alternate Source Issue 03 (1980)(The Alternate Source) |
Table of Contents
In This Issue:
| 3 | HANDS OFF by Dennis Bathory Kitsz |
| 6 | REAL B.S. |
| 7 | AN ALTERNATE VIDEO DISPLAY by Robert M. Richardson Storing Video Display Frames in Memory for Later Recall. |
| 11 | 80-AIDS |
| 14 | WHEN YOU TURN IT ON by Dennis Bathory Kitsz Power-Up Routines of the TRS-80, Part 1 |
| 20 | MYSTERY PROGRAM by Charley Butler |
| 25 | MICRODOS REVIEW by William Perry |
| 31 | TWODISK by Roxton Baker |
| 36 | WHAT'S WHERE THE VARPTR POINTS by Bill Brown |
Regular Features:
| 2 | Editorial Rambling by Charley Butler |
| 22 | Survey |
| 28 | Bulletin Board |
| 35 | From The Source's Mouth by Joni M. Kosloski |
| 43 | Odds & Ends |
The Alternate Source Magazine - Volume 1, Number 4
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Issue Information:
| Name: | The Alternate Source Magazine |
| Issue: | Vol 1 No 4 / Issue 4 |
| Date: | 1980 |
| Publisher: | The Alternate Source Publications |
| Size: | 5.3M |
| Pages: | 52 |
| TOSEC: | The Alternate Source Issue 04 (1980)(The Alternate Source) |
Table of Contents
In This Issue:
| 3 | Power Up |
| 10 | In-Memory Sorting Using GSF |
| 15 | Killer |
| 24 | Teach Your TRS-80 To Talk |
| 26 | Bit Wits |
| 31 | Computing Elapsed Time |
| 33 | Superzap Patches |
| 34 | Direct Statement In File |
| 38 | Menu Power |
| 40 | BOOT/SYS Who Explained |
| 41 | VARPTR |
| 39 | Lineset |
Regular Features:
| 2 | Editorial RAMbling |
| 29 | Bulletin Board |
| 32 | Survey |
| 36 | From The Source's Mouth |
| 51 | Odds & Ends |
The Alternate Source Magazine - Volume 1, Number 5
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Issue Information:
| Name: | The Alternate Source Magazine |
| Issue: | Vol 1 No 5 / Issue 5 |
| Date: | 1980 |
| Publisher: | The Alternate Source Publications |
| Size: | 10.4M |
| Pages: | 72 |
| TOSEC: | The Alternate Source Issue 05 (1980)(The Alternate Source) |
Table of Contents
In This Issue:
| 3 | Let Your Fingers Do The ... by Dennis Bathory Kitsz The Keyboard Scan of the TRS-80 |
| 12 | Entry by Jason K. Potter A Test Analysis and Grading Program |
| 24 | Bit Kickin' With Jesse Bob |
| 28 | Out Of Sorts?? by Thomas Frederick |
| 31 | Penram by Roxton Baker A Scrolling Ram Editor |
| 52 | NEWDOS-80 Review by Al Domuret An Appraisal |
Regular Features:
| 2 | Editorial RAMbling by Charley Butler |
| 50 | From The Source's Mouth by Joni M. Kosloski |
The Alternate Source Magazine - Volume 1, Number 6
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Issue Information:
| Name: | The Alternate Source Magazine |
| Issue: | Vol 1 No 6 / Issue 6 |
| Date: | 1980 |
| Publisher: | The Alternate Source Publications |
| Size: | 8.0M |
| Pages: | 64 |
| TOSEC: | The Alternate Source Issue 06 (19xx)(The Alternate Source) |
Table of Contents
In This Issue:
| 3 | Through The Ins And Outs Of Tape by Dennis Bathory Kitsz Everything you ever wanted to know about tape I/O - but didn't know who to ask? Pay close attention and see if you can identify the five oddball I/O routiens that follow. |
| 15 | Another Way To Install Machine Language by Jesse Bob Overholt, Proprietor The boys at the Circle J tell about "The Phantom Line Trick." Technique is illustrated with a hexadecimal-decimal conversion program. |
| 20 | DIRBASIC by Bruce G. Hansen A reliable assembly language routine to allow access to directories without leaving BASIC. |
| 33 | Making Your Machine Language Programs Relocatable by Jack Decker Your programs will now protect themselves, respect other already loaded programs, and load into the higest available memory. |
| 45 | VTOS 4.0 Review by Al Domuret An in-depth and honest report on the most controvercial DOS to date. |
| 53 | Undocumented Z-80 Opcodes by Daniel R. Lunsford A complete list of the undocumented opcodes executed by the Zilog Z-80 microprocessor. |
| 57 | Floating Point USR by Mark T. Langley-Cook Floating point variables can be transferred between machine language and BASIC. This tutorial points out two methods. |
| 60 | Speeding Up A Sequential Search by Joni M. Kosloski Decrease your processing time by up to 30%. This tutorial tells and explains how. |
Regular Features:
| 2 | Editorial RAMbling by Charley Butler |
| 39 | From The Source's Mouth by Joni M. Kosloski |
| 41 | Bit Kickin' |
| 55 | Contest |
The Alternate Source Magazine - Volume 2, Number 1
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Issue Information:
| Name: | The Alternate Source Magazine |
| Issue: | Vol 2 No 1 / Issue 7 |
| Date: | 1981 |
| Publisher: | The Alternate Source Publications |
| Size: | 9.3M |
| Pages: | 76 |
| TOSEC: | The Alternate Source Issue 07 (1981)(The Alternate Source) |
Table of Contents
In This Issue:
| 3 | In Popular Decorator Colors by Dennis Bathory Kitsz is the proud new owner of a Radio Shack Color Computer .. and he thinks it's worth shouting about! |
| 16 | The TRS-80 Pocket Computer by by Richard C. Vanderburgh Key features and limitations from a programmer's point of view, plus a word bagels game! |
| 22 | What's New About The Model III by Jack Decker From keyboard input to video display to ROM routines, this article takes an in-depth look at the Model III. |
| 34 | Bit Kickin' With Jesse Bob by Jesse Bob Overholt Jesse Bob Overholt answers the latest batch of technical questions. |
| 39 | Prime Numbers by Byron Drachman Prime numbers may be the topic of discussion, but this article is actually a fantastic tutorial on data packing and assembly language programming! |
| 57 | by Dennis Bathory Kitsz. by Return To Sender - Addressee Unknown On the virtues of relocatable code. |
| 72 | Hinch by Jim Resh Hexadecimal INspect and CHange - a mixed language software development tool. |
The Alternate Source Magazine - Volume 2, Number 2
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Issue Information:
| Name: | The Alternate Source Magazine |
| Issue: | Vol 2 No 2 / Issue 8 |
| Date: | 1981 |
| Publisher: | The Alternate Source Publications |
| Size: | 6.9M |
| Pages: | 72 |
| TOSEC: | The Alternate Source Issue 08 (19xx)(The Alternate Source) |
Table of Contents
In This Issue:
| 3 | SO WHAT GOOD IS AN INTERRUPT? by Dennis Bathory Kitsz Lock the door, unplug the TV and take the phone off the hook - you're about to be officially 'interrupted! |
| 17 | DOUBLER DBLDOS DOUBLE-ZAP by Al Domuret Double your data, Double your fun. A jam-packed article on a jam-packed subject. |
| 32 | PRIME NUMBERS - PART TWO by Byron Drachman Byron wraps up his super article on converting Basic to Assembly Language. All listings included this time! |
| 47 | BIT KICKIN' WITH JESSE BOB by Jesse Bob Overholt Jesse Bob and his Wranglers continue their never-ending advice from the Circle J. Meet good neighbor Gomer Koole in this issue! |
| 51 | BASIC STATISTICS by Bruce Douglass What's Jimmy the Greek got that we ain't got? Just read this article and you'll be narrowing the gap. |
| 63 | ALL YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT VTCOMM by Leslie Mikesell Step right up, VTOS folks! Leslie Mikesell reveals all! |
The Alternate Source Magazine - Volume 2, Number 3
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Issue Information:
| Name: | The Alternate Source Magazine |
| Issue: | Vol 2 No 3 / Issue 9 |
| Date: | 1981 |
| Publisher: | The Alternate Source Publications |
| Size: | 12M |
| Pages: | 68 |
| TOSEC: | The Alternate Source Issue 09 (1981)(The Alternate Source) |
Table of Contents
In This Issue:
| 2 | RELOCATE BASIC by Jim Resh |
| 12 | BIT KICKIN' WITH JESSE BOB by Jesse Bob Overholt |
| 16 | COMMENTS TO SUPPLEMENT THE NEWDOS/80 REVIEW by Al Domuret |
| 18 | NEWDOS/80 UTILITY ENHANCEMENTS by Garry Gale |
| 20 | CORRELATION ANALYSIS WITH VISICALC by Jason Potter |
| 30 | LPRINT YOUR SCREEN FROM BASIC by Michael Henderson |
| 32 | SOME DISK CONSIDERATIONS by John Brule |
| 43 | ZERO BASE YOUR DOS by Richard Vanderburgh |
| 46 | SHELL METZNER IN Z-80 by Edward Jelf |
| 52 | ADDITIONAL COMMENTS ON MODEL III by Jack Decker |
| 54 | BASIC STATISTICS II by Bruce Douglass |
| 62 | INKEY SUBROUTINE FOR BUSINESS by Bill Sias |
| 64 | A TRS-232 PRINTER DRIVER by Dan L. Robinson |
The Alternate Source Magazine - Volume 2, Number 4
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Issue Information:
| Name: | The Alternate Source Magazine |
| Issue: | Vol 2 No 4 / Issue 10 |
| Date: | 1981 |
| Publisher: | The Alternate Source Publications |
| Size: | 9.4M |
| Pages: | 68 |
| TOSEC: | The Alternate Source Issue 10 [OCR] (1981)(The Alternate Source) |
Table of Contents
In This Issue:
| 2 | Editorial RAMbling by Joni M. Kosloski It's been awhile since the last issue, and this column explains the 'problem'. |
| 3 | When Kicking It Won't Help by Dennis Bathory Kitsz Take two aspirins, drink plenty of water, get some sleep, and read this article in the morning. |
| 16 | Letters The mail brings many surprises each day, and criticisms, and corrections, and congratulations, and ... |
| 22 | ACCEL Vs. BASCOM Vs. ZBASIC by Bruce Douglass This valuable review may be Just the prescription for speeding up those sluggish programs! |
| 33 | Bit Kickin' With Jesse Bob by Jesse Bob Overholt This month Jesse Bob and his wranglers have news reunrding write-protect tabs, NEWDOS/80 & TRSDOS 2.3 incompatibility, and double density. |
| 37 | EDTASM JAR by Jim Resh Micro contest! Free subscription to the first person who can tell what JAR stands for! |
| 50 | From The Source's Mouth by Joni M. Kosloski TAS attended the computer faire in New York; here's all the details. |
| 52 | LXREF by Peter A. Lev Anyone who rigorously practices structured programming techniques probably won't need this program. |
| 61 | Basic Statistics, Part Three by Bruce Douglass This just isn't your AVERAGE article on statistics -- and we MEAN it! |
The Alternate Source Magazine - Volume 2, Number 5
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Issue Information:
| Name: | The Alternate Source Magazine |
| Issue: | Vol 2 No 5 / Issue 11 |
| Date: | 1981 |
| Publisher: | The Alternate Source Publications |
| Size: | 13.4M |
| Pages: | 84 |
| TOSEC: | The Alternate Source Issue 11 [OCR] (1981)(The Alternate Source) |
Table of Contents
In This Issue:
| 3 | A Manual For Radio Shack's Editor/Assembler by Dennis Bathory Kitsz Demystify your Editor/Assembler! This is the first of a series of articles which will form a supplementtuy manual detailing the operation of the package; includes examples and explanations. |
| 19 | SUPERCOP by Dan L. Robinson SUPERCOP is a super utility! Designed to copy any type of file from disk to tape or from tape to disk. Includes twelve displays showing how various rues are stored on diskette! |
| 46 | ELECTRIC PENCIL ZAPS by Al Domuret Two frustrating limitations are zapped away! Now your PENCIL will pause at the beginning of a new page, and the space bar will now ASSURE a pause at the start of the next printed line. |
| 50 | One Step Load & Execute by James A. Resh Learn to use TBUG the smart way! Write auto-executable machine language modules with more than one origin. One step loads all! |
| 54 | MUMATH, A Review by Bruce Douglass An overview of the package, How to save functions to disk, Control Variable Summary. Sample Programs, and a MUMATH text editor! Lots of good stuff. |
| 66 | Bit Kickin' With Jesse Bob by Jesse Bob Overholt Jesse Bob gives us the latest scoop on the RND( X) function, discusses the brand new Doubler II from Percom, and reveals info about the Model III disk controller. |
| 70 | Basic Statistics, Part Four by Bruce Douglass The fourth article in this series provides information. program and example of Two Way Analysis of Variance (TANOVA). |
| 79 | Structured BASIC Translator by Robert J. Newton A review and commentary of A com's package. Provides fixes to allow text editing under TRSDOS Disk BASIC. NEWDOS/8O Disk BASIC, EDAS or Apparat's version of Editor/Assembler. |
The Alternate Source Magazine - Volume 2, Number 6
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Issue Information:
| Name: | The Alternate Source Magazine |
| Issue: | Vol 2 No 6 / Issue 12 |
| Date: | 1981 |
| Publisher: | The Alternate Source Publications |
| Size: | 10.5M |
| Pages: | 76 |
| TOSEC: | The Alternate Source Issue 12 (1981)(The Alternate Source) |
Table of Contents
In This Issue:
| 2 | Bootstrap by Charley Butler |
| 3 | A Manual For Radio Shack's Editor Assembler by Dennis Bathory Kitsz Dennis continues to unravel mysteries of machine language programming using EDTASM. This is part two of a three part series. |
| 24 | Reconstructing Model III TRSDOS Directory Entries by Charley Butler Model I and Model III directories aren't THAT different, but there are enough differences to set your mind wondering. Explanations herein. |
| 35 | Bit Kickin' With Jesse Bob by Jesse Bob Overholt The old phantom error probler, JKLing with your MX-80, and simulating the Model III ROUTE command are JB's subject matter this month. |
| 39 | Keyboard Input Buffer Routine by Jack Decker Jack is envious of the type-ahead ahead feature on various other conftgurations, and manages (almost) to implement it on his Level II system. |
| 46 | Files, Anyone? by Fred Faulkner Fred (and Natasha) provide us with a look at sequential file types for both TRSDOS and NEWDOS/80. |
| 58 | BASIC Statistics, Part Five by Bruce Douglass Correlation and Linear Regression are the subject of this month's column. |
| 65 | Universal Print Formatter by Clarence A. Felong Does there exist one print format program that will handle all of your printing needs? Look and see. |
The Alternate Source Magazine - Volume 3, Number 1
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Issue Information:
| Name: | The Alternate Source Magazine |
| Issue: | Vol 3 No 1 / Issue 13 |
| Date: | 1982 |
| Publisher: | The Alternate Source Publications |
| Size: | 12.2M |
| Pages: | 76 |
| TOSEC: | The Alternate Source Issue 13 (1982)(The Alternate Source) |
Table of Contents
In This Issue:
| 3 | A Manual For Radio Shack's Editor/Assembler by Dennis Baltory Kitsz The third (and final) part of our introductory tutorial on machine language. |
| 23 | Auto Remarking Your BASIC by Steven Kovitz Auto Assistance for your inexpensive, built-in text editor. |
| 28 | Making Tracks by Roxton Baker From the Kwajalein island of Roi-Namur, Roxton Baker provides additional support for his popular TRAKCESS program. |
| 50 | Missing Patch Installing this modification for making Superzap work on the Model III should be a Snapp! |
| 52 | Basic Statistics, Part Six by Bruce Douglass. This is the final installment for the current series. Multiple Linear Regression is covered. |
| 59 | Improved Ampersand Function by Jack Decker Special techniques for interfacing with RAM vectors. Errata is also included for Jack Decker's article last issue. |
| 64 | Spelling Check by Allan J. Domuret A comparative review of the most popular spelling checkers on the market today. |
Regular Features:
| 31 | TASkmaster by Ken and Toby Salzman |
| 32 | Letters |
| 43 | Assembly Language Subroutine Library by Craig Lindley An introduction to the library. |
| 47 | Bit Kickin' With Jesse Bob by Jesse Bob Overholt |
| 74 | From The Source's Mouth by Charley Butler |
The Alternate Source Magazine - Volume 3, Number 2
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Issue Information:
| Name: | The Alternate Source Magazine |
| Issue: | Vol 3 No 2 / Issue 14 |
| Date: | 1982 |
| Publisher: | The Alternate Source Publications |
| Size: | 13.6M |
| Pages: | 76 |
| TOSEC: | The Alternate Source Issue 14 [OCR] (1982)(The Alternate Source) |
Table of Contents
In This Issue:
| 3 | The EDTASM/INTASM Connection by Jim Resh Is the world ready for yet another editor/ assembler format? Jim says yes, as long as they can talk to one another. |
| 18 | ZAPHELPER by Steven Kovitz This is a nice, handy routine! Can't rattle off ASCII/hex conversions as fast as you need to? Don't worry about it. Use Zaphelper. |
| 25 | Full Screen Editor by Jason Potter A full screen editor routine, plus other tips and techniques that could prove to be very useful in your own programming projects. |
| 33 | Faster Cassette Data Files by Jack Decker For Level II folk or for archival purposes. A very interesting technique to limit your cassette I/O time. |
| 49 | An Improved Method of Packing Machine Code by Bruce Douglass Bruce has an improved method of doing many things, it seems. Here the old "Pac-man" shows his stuff. |
| 53 | CopySP by William Quick Been a few people screaming for Model III articles. Here is the first of a number of good ones. |
| 65 | The BASIC Differences by Jack Decker The Level II BASIC interpreter difference, that is. Jack comments on the differences between the Models I and III. |
Regular Features:
| 42 | Bit Kickin' With Jesse Bob by Jesse Bob Overholt |
| 45 | Assembly Language Subroutine Library by Craig Lindley |
| 72 | TASkmaster by Ken and Toby Salzman |
| 74 | From The Source's Mouth by Charley Butler |
The Alternate Source Magazine - Volume 3, Number 3
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Issue Information:
| Name: | The Alternate Source Magazine |
| Issue: | Vol 3 No 3 / Issue 15 |
| Date: | 1982 |
| Publisher: | The Alternate Source Publications |
| Size: | 12.8M |
| Pages: | 108 |
| TOSEC: | The Alternate Source Issue 15 [OCR] (1982)(The Alternate Source) |
Table of Contents
In This Issue:
| 2 | BOOTSTRAP |
| 3 | A Monophonic Music Compiler by Dennis Bathory Kitsz A music compiler called QUAVER. Does the TRS-80 march to the beat of a different drummper? Listen to this! |
| 41 | Combining Fortran With BASIC by Nat Wells Here's how to make your BASIC program call up and use your favorite FORTRAN subroutines. |
| 41 | Bit Kickin' With Jesse Bob by Jesse Bob Overholt This month JBO and his wranglers tackle some perplexing problems with ROM routines and other things. |
| 58 | Pass BASIC Variables To USR by Jim Resh Anybody can pass one variable t a USR call, but Jim can show you how. |
| 77 | FORTRAN CALLable Routines by William Premerlani Graphics and random number functions in FORTRAN are not impossible. William Premerlani shows you how to write assembler routines that your FORTRAN program can CALL. |
| 86 | Assembly Language Library # 3 by Clockwork Software This issue, Clockwork Software provides you with two hex character input routines. |
Regular Features:
| 92 | TASkmaster by Ken and Toby Salzman |
| 94 | Letters |
| 107 | From The Source's Mouth by Charley Butler |
The Alternate Source Magazine - Volume 3, Number 4
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Issue Information:
| Name: | The Alternate Source Magazine |
| Issue: | Vol 3 No 4 / Issue 16 |
| Date: | 1982 |
| Publisher: | The Alternate Source Publications |
| Size: | 19.4 |
| Pages: | 132 |
| TOSEC: | The Alternate Source Issue 16 [OCR] (1982)(The Alternate Source) |
Table of Contents
In This Issue:
| 2 | Bootstrap |
| 3 | Command Sequence Program by Craig Lindley Craig provides us with an editor and utility to make DO files more powerful. |
| 63 | Bit Kickin' With Jesse Bob by Jesse Bob Overholt This issue JBO shows how to make subroutines (and CALLs) relocatable. plugging BASIC vectors and Speeding up Model III disk I/O routines. |
| 69 | From The Source's Mouth |
| 70 | More Memory For Fortran Programs by William Premerlani William Premerlani is back, this time with some expert advice for getting the max amount of memory from your Fortran Compiler. |
| 75 | TRS-80 ROM Routines Documented, Part One by Jack Decker A serialized summary of information about I/III ROMs. |
| 91 | Assembly Language Library #4 This issue, Clockwork Software provides insight on Decimal Input Routines. |
| 96 | Telecommunications And The TRS-80 by Gordon Williams. CompuNet SYSOP Gordon gives us the rundown of an exciting new series. |
The Alternate Source Magazine - Volume 3, Number 5
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Issue Information:
| Name: | The Alternate Source Magazine |
| Issue: | Vol 3 No 5 / Issue 17 |
| Date: | 1982 |
| Publisher: | The Alternate Source Publications |
| Size: | 14.8MB |
| Pages: | 164 |
| TOSEC: | The Alternate Source Issue 17 (1982)(The Alternate Source) |
Table of Contents
In This Issue:
| 3 | C-ALL by Michael Schultze Michael Schultze has wrttten a monitor for tracing, disassembling and breakpointing - entirely in Z-80! |
| 85 | ROM Routines, Part 2 by Jack Decker Part 2 of Jack Decker's ROM tutorial covers the Arithmetic Routines. |
| 98 | Bit Kickin' With Jesse Bob by Jesse Bob Overholt Jesse Bob and his Wranglers provide us with the current batch of questions and answers, problems and solutions. |
| 103 | TelCom 2 by Gordon Williams Gordon Williams supplies an overview of Modem 80, DDS, TDS, and DFT as well as the Bullet-80 network of bulletin boards. |
| 134 | Assembly Language Library #5 by Craig Lindley Craig Lindley covers hex to ASCII conversion routines in this issue's column. |
| 139 | From The Source's Mouth by Charley Butler This column contains information that will be of interest to author's submitting articles or programs for distribution. |
| 142 | Decipher by Dan Robinson Dan Robinson supplies us with a program to back up protected diskettes, as insurance against damage to the original. |
| 146 | DOSPLUS 3.4 Notes And Transfer Program by Roxton Baker Roxton Baker patches DOSPLUS to fix a couple of quirks, and offers a transfer program which will read the directories of all your old disks and permits file copying. |
| 150 | A Faster Sorting Technique by Byron Drachman Byron Drachman has a really unique idea, and it really works! Drastically reduce your sorting time using this new technique. |
| 155 | Random Access Files by Robert Jacobs Robert Jacobs helps us take full advantage of the availability of random access file structures with his general TRSOOS fielding routine. |
The Alternate Source Magazine - Volume 3, Number 6
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Issue Information:
| Name: | The Alternate Source Magazine |
| Issue: | Vol 3 No 6 / Issue 18 |
| Date: | 1982 |
| Publisher: | The Alternate Source Publications |
| Size: | 20.6M |
| Pages: | 164 |
| TOSEC: | The Alternate Source Issue 18 [OCR] (1982)(The Alternate Source) |
Table of Contents
In This Issue:
| 2 | Bootstrap |
| 3 | TRS-80 ROM Routines Commented - Part Three by Jack Decker This issue Jack deals with Strings and String-Handling Routines in the ROM. |
| 15 | The New PENRAM by R. Baker Extensive patches to this top-quality public domain program. |
| 36 | DIF For The Compleat Idiot by Jason Potter Jason shows us how to get maximum use of Soft Sector Marketing's fine program - by interfacing it with VisiCalc! |
| 45 | Bit Kickin' With Jesse Bob Jesse Bob and his Wranglers bring you a special addition to the regular column - a listing of all the error codes, their meanings and what causes them! |
| 54 | Enhancing Series I Tape EDTASM - Model III by Larry Cunningham Anybody in the market for a good Model III EDTASM? Here it is! |
| 87 | Count To A Million Contest Results After all these years ... |
| 90 | Telecommunications And The TRS-80: Telcom 3 by Gordon Williams A wrapup of comparisons and a couple of nifty programs to make online sessions easier. |
| 127 | Assembly Language Library # 6 by Clockwork Software "Operator Input Command Processing." How's that for a buzzword? |
| 131 | From The Source's Mouth Wherein we discuss the Max-80, publication schedules and the importance of documentation. |
| 132 | Mailbag Probably a regular new column. New stuff you might want to know about. |
| 133 | Pascal Patches by Jonathan Yarden ... another show-off kid. Just wait 'till you see what he's got up and coming. |
| 150 | The Computer Revolution - Who Are The Beneficiaries? |
| 153 | Program For The Blind/Visually Handicapped by Norman Hills and Byron Drachman |
| 158 | Overview: The Max-80 by Steven Kovitz Either this is the buy we've been waiting for or the biggest con since World Power Systems! |
The Alternate Source Magazine - Volume 3, Number 6
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Issue Information:
| Name: | The Alternate Source Magazine |
| Issue: | Vol 4 No 1 / Issue 19 |
| Date: | 1984 |
| Publisher: | The Alternate Source Publications |
| Size: | ????M |
| Pages: | 128 |
| TOSEC: | ???? |
Table of Contents
In This Issue:
| 1 | Bootstrap |
| 2 | Bits And Pieces by Paul Sniveley Everything you ever wanted to know about Model I doubler's but didn't know who to ask. |
| 13 | Radio Shack's Model 4P by Jesse Bob Overholt Looking under the hood. |
| 19 | Swap Your Drives In Software by Jack Decker A utility for use with NEWDOS/80 Version 2 |
| 24 | Model III Disk I/O Utility Program by Craig Lindley A ZAP utility for TRSDOS 1.3 |
| 47 | Lazywriter Index Sort by Dennis Allen Support for Alpha-Bit Comm's great word processor |
| 51 | Making Software Compatible by Dennis Mike Schulze Help for when software must run with more than one DOS |
| 85 | Newtron by Jim Resh A better BASIC debugger. |